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was a Japanese
Champion, with NEC Red Rockets
*2002 8th V.League – 
Runner-Up, with NEC Red Rockets
*2003 9th V.League – Champion, with NEC Red Rockets
*2004 10th V.League – Champion, with NEC Red Rockets
*2008–09 V.Premier League – Runner-Up, with Hisamitsu Springs
*2009 58th Runner-Up, with Hisamistu Springa
*2009–10 V.Premier League – Runner-Up, with JT Marvelous
*2010 59th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – Runner-Up, with JT Marvelous
*2010–11 V.Premier League – Champion, with JT Marvelous
*2011 60th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – Champion, with JT Marvelous
Champion
*2012: Bronze Medal in the Olympic Games of London
Champion
FIVB biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Otomo, Ai 1982 births Living people Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Japan Sportspeople from Sendai NEC Red Rockets players Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in volleyball Japanese women's volleyball players Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
player. Her name before her divorce was Ai Yamamoto (山本 愛).
Career
She competed at the2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #13 jersey. She took fifth place with the Japan women's national team. She played as a middle-blocker.
In 2006, she was two months pregnant when she married Tatsuo Yamamoto
was a Japanese politician and Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1898 to 1903. He was also a member of the House of Peers and served as a cabinet minister in the pre-war government of the Empire of Japan.
Early life
Yamamoto was born in U ...
, a professional beach volleyball player.
In 2008, Hisamitsu Springs announced that she would return to active duty.
In 2009, she moved to JT Marvelous.
In September 2011, due to a right knee injury, Japan Volleyball Association announced that she would not play in the World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was part of the Japanese team that won the bronze medal in indoor women's volleyball.
In April 2013 JT Marvelous announced her retirement.
On 8 August 2013, Ai married Hiroyuki Akimoto
is a Japanese judoka . After moving up from the –66 kg division to the –73 kg division, he won the gold medal in the lightweight (73 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships.
He married volleyball player Ai Ōtomo
...
who is a Judoka
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
.
Clubs
*SendaiIkuei High School *NEC Red Rockets
is a women's volleyball team based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. It plays in V.League 1. The owner of the team is NEC.
The club was founded in April 1978 as NEC's corporate team, participating the same year in the 10th V.Challenge League to ...
(2000–2006)
*Hisamitsu Springs
is a women's volleyball team based in Kobe city, Hyogo and Tosu city, Saga, Japan. It plays in V.League 1. The club was founded in 1948.
In July 2020 the team announced an official name change from "Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Springs" to "Hi ...
(2008–2009)
*JT Marvelous
is a women's volleyball team owned by Japan Tobacco Ltd., and based in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. The team is the reigning champion of the V.League 1 after winning the 2019-20 and 2020–21 seasons.
Honours
Domestic competitions
; Japan Vo ...
(2009–2013)
Awards
Individual
*1999 Asian Youth Championship – Best server award *2000 Asian Junior Championship – Server award *2001 2000–01 V.Premier League – New face award *2002 51stKurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Championship
, is a volleyball tournament in Japan.
Kurowashiki () means the flag of black eagle. It opens in May every year at Osaka. It is organized by the Japan Volleyball Association and the Mainichi Newspapers.
History
*1952 - It started as All Japan V ...
– Best6
*2005 54th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Championship – Best6
*2009 58th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament
, is a volleyball tournament in Japan.
Kurowashiki () means the flag of black eagle. It opens in May every year at Osaka. It is organized by the Japan Volleyball Association and the Mainichi Newspapers.
History
*1952 - It started as All Japan V ...
– Best6
*2010 2009–10 V.Premier League – Best 6
*2010 59th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – Best6
*2011 2010–11 V.Premier League – Best 6
*2011 60th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – MVP, Best6
*2013 62nd Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – Best 6
Team
*2001Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Championship
, is a volleyball tournament in Japan.
Kurowashiki () means the flag of black eagle. It opens in May every year at Osaka. It is organized by the Japan Volleyball Association and the Mainichi Newspapers.
History
*1952 - It started as All Japan V ...
– Champion, with NEC Red Rockets
*2002 8th V.League – Runner-Up, with NEC Red Rockets
*2003 9th V.League – Champion, with NEC Red Rockets
*2004 10th V.League – Champion, with NEC Red Rockets
*2008–09 V.Premier League – Runner-Up, with Hisamitsu Springs
*2009 58th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament
, is a volleyball tournament in Japan.
Kurowashiki () means the flag of black eagle. It opens in May every year at Osaka. It is organized by the Japan Volleyball Association and the Mainichi Newspapers.
History
*1952 - It started as All Japan V ...
– Runner-Up, with Hisamistu Springa
*2009–10 V.Premier League – Runner-Up, with JT Marvelous
*2010 59th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – Runner-Up, with JT Marvelous
*2010–11 V.Premier League – Champion, with JT Marvelous
*2011 60th Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament – Champion, with JT Marvelous
National team
Senior team
*2002World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
– 13th place
*2004 Summer Olympics – 5th place
*2010 World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
– Bronze medal
*2011 Montreux Volley Masters
The Montreux Volley Masters (founded as the Coupe des Nations, later changed to BCV Volley Cup between 1990 and 1996 and to its current name in 1998) is an international invitational tournament for national teams in women's volleyball hosted by th ...
– Champion
*2012: Bronze Medal in the Olympic Games of London
Junior team
*2000 World Youth Championship – Champion
References
External links
FIVB biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Otomo, Ai 1982 births Living people Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Japan Sportspeople from Sendai NEC Red Rockets players Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in volleyball Japanese women's volleyball players Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games